On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:35:01PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > 2012-10-28 22:14:15 Mike Gilbert napisa??(a): > > This library is used for processing Unicode text in several high-profile > > packages, including Chromium and other Webkit browsers, PHP, boost, and > > many more. > > > > Fair warning: ICU tends to break several packages with every major > > release, so thorough testing is needed when bumping it. > > > > This package is currently being maintained by proxy by a former Gentoo > > developer, Arfrever. Given this package's potential to cause problems, > > this situation is not ideal. > > > > It would be really great if an active Gentoo developer would step > > forward and take care of this one. > > I am actively maintaining ICU and test many reverse dependencies with new > versions of ICU > (using a not package.masked version of GCC). > > Members of proxy-maintainers team or others actively commit fixes/updates, so > there > is no need to change current situation.
Yeah... I don't agree with that. Floppym wouldn't be looking for a new maintainer if that was accurate. The package has been cranky enough in parallel with revdeps breaking everytime it's bumped that this needs a dev watching it, rather than whichever random proxy-maintainer member snags that version. Anyone got the spare cycles for it? ~harring
